Hans Zehetmair and Siegfried Lenz at the awarding of the Jean Paul Prize, 1995
The Bavarian Minister of Culture, Johannes B. Zehetmair, presents the Jean Paul Prize to the writer Siegfried Lenz.nThe Bavarian Literature Prize, awarded by the Free State of Bavaria in 1983 and endowed with DM 25,000, is presented annually alternately as the Jean Paul Prize or the Karl Vossler Prize. The Jean Paul Prize honors the literary oeuvre of a German-speaking writer, while the Karl Vossler Prize is dedicated to scholarly presentations of literary merit. [automated translation]
